definitive host in English

noun
1
an organism that supports the adult or sexually reproductive form of a parasite.
The worms were using hyena and large cats as definitive hosts and bovids as intermediate hosts.

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1. Adult Ascarids typically live in the small intestine of the definitive host and eggs are shed in the feces

2. The definitive host of Angiostrongylus cantonensis is Rattus norvegicus and intermediate host is Ampullarum crossean. Its suggest that we must take precautions against Angiostrongylus cantonensis.

3. The definitive host is the dog, but it can also infect cats, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and other animals, such as ferrets, bears, seals, sea lions and, under rare circumstances, humans.

4. The pig is the intermediate host, in which parasites grow into larvae (Cysticerci) from eggs, whereas humans are the definitive host, in which parasites grow into the adult stage and produce eggs [90,91]